2.11-2.12

• forced migration - migration that is involuntary
• Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)


  Migrants who move to another part of the same country due to forced migration
• Refugees


  Migrants who cross international borders due to forced migration
• asylum - protection granted by one country to an immigrant from another country who has a legitimate fear of harm or death if he or she returns to his or her home country
• internal migration - a movement that occurs within a country
• chain migration - when people migrate to and settle in a new country, they bring their family and friends with them
• transhumance - the practice of moving livestock from one seasonal pasture to another
• homestead act (1862) - a program in which the US government gave land to settlers willing to stay and farm it for five years
• guest-worker policies - policies that allow foreign workers to enter a country to work for a limited period of time
• family reunification - allow migrants to sponsor family members who migrate to the country
• xenophobia - a strong dislike of people of another culture
• remittances - money sent to their family and friends in their home country
• brian drain - when migration out of a country is made up of mainly highly skilled and intelligent people
• ethnic enclaves - areas of a city where people of the same ethnic group live in a separate area